32 HOURS OF ROCK'S TIME WAS SPENT BETWEEN OVERHAULING THUS STAUFFER COMPLICATED MOVEMENT AND RESTORING HER CASE, DIAL AND ILLUMINATION

A ROCK QUOTE"I ALWAYS ATTEMPT TO KEEP AN ANTIQUE TIME PIECE LIKE THIS ONE AS CLOSE TO LOOKING USED AS POSSIBLE"ROCK

A ROCK INFO

"THIS STAUFFER OPERATES LIKE IT SHOULD. SOME PARTS THAT WERE UNAVAILABLE WERE MADE OR CONVERTED.OCCASIONALLY SHE MAY REQUIRE AN EXTRA PUSH OR CLICK HERE OR THERE. BUT THEN AGAIN, IT CAN OCCUR ON A NEW ONE. "

NOTE THE JAPANESE MILITARY ENGRAVED HINGED CASE BACK******************************************************

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AGAIN, A FAR CRY FROM WHAT IT WAS AFTER 83+ YEARS

THE CROWN WINDS THE MAINTHEN ONE DOWN CLICK OF THE CROWN CAUSES TWO MAIN HANDS TO ROTATE AND BEGIN COUNTING TIMETHE SMALL SUBSIDIARY DIAL AT CENTER TOP COUNTS ROTATIONSANOTHER DOWN CLICK OF CROWN STOPS BOTH MAIN HANDSANOTHER DOWN CLICK OF CROWN RETURNS BOTH MAIN HANDS TO CENTER TOP

WHEN PRESSED THE RECTANGULAR BUTTON LEFT OF CROWN OPERATES THE SECOND MAIN HAND BEHIND THE FIRST TOP MAIN HAND. ONE CLICK STOPS THIS HAND, TO MANUALLY RECORD TIMEANOTHER CLICK MAKESTHE HAND CATCH UP TO THE TOP MAIN HANDWHERE IT RESUMES COUNTING WITH MAIN HANDYOU CAN STOP AND START THE SECOND HAND AS MANY TIMESAS THERE IS IN EACH ROTATION

HERE THE SECOND HAND STOPPED PAST 30 WHILE MAIN HAND CONTINUES WHERE THE TOP SUBSIDIARY DIAL HAND RECORDS THE TOP HAND ROTATIONS

HERE ROCK CLICKED THE RECTANGULAR BUTTON LEFT OF CROWN TO MAKE THE SECOND MAI HAND RESUME WITH THE MAIN HAND

HERE ANOTHER CLICK WILL STOP IT

YOU NOTED THE BROWN CIRCULAR DOTS?THERE WERE MORE, BUT NO PIC OF ITTHEY ARE RADIUM DOTSPLACED FOR MILITARY USETHE OTHERS WERE WORN OFF SOME WERE JUST CIRCLES WITH NOTHINGROCK WILL RECREATE THESE THE WAY IT WASIN 1930'-1940'

THE ILLUMINATION USED BY ROCK IS AF SUPER LUMINOVA A NON TOXIC PHOSPHORUS PIGMENT COMBINED WITH LACQUER THE PROBLEM WITH COLOR IS THE PIGMENT COMES IN WHITE GREEN BLUE RED ORANGE

WE NEED A TAN TO BROWN COLOR AND INVESTING IN DIFFERENT COLOR PIGMENT WOULD COST A TIDY SUM AND MIXING COLORS SIMPLY DOES NOT PRODUCED THE RESULTS WE REQUIRE

ABOVE ROCK MIXED LACQUER AND WHITE LUME HE WILL ADD A PAINT MIX HE DOES NOT OFFER THE RECIPE TO LACQUER WILL NOT MIX WITH PAINT. WATER OR OIL WOULD SEPARATE

HERE IS MODEL PAINT. ROCK WILL BURN THIS FOR A MIXTURE

HERE WHITE LUME LACQUER AND THE TAN POWDER IS MIXED

WALLA ROCK APPLIES THE LUME AND MAKES IT LOOK LIKE IT WAS 80 YEARS AGO YET WITH AN AGED LOOK THAT WILLINCREASE OVER TWO YEARS INTO WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE AFTER 80 YEARS

HERE WE TEST AGAIN TO INSURE HANDS WILL PASS EACH OTHER AND THAT WEIGHT IS NOT A CONCERN ON FLY BACK

TOTALLY AWESOME

NOTE HANDS ALIGN PERFECTLY EVERY TIME

BRING IN THE LIGHT

OK... 12 MOVEMENT PARTS EITHER HAND MADE OF SCAVENGED YET A CRYSTAL SHOULD BE AVAILABLE? FORGETABOUTID YOU HAVE TO USE A PERIOD CRYSTAL! CELLULOID WAS THE CRYSTAL OF THE DAY THEY GET YELLOW OVER TIME BUT ROCK HAS ANOTHER SECRET RECIPE TO RESTORING CELLULOID YES, SOME BUFF IT RAW TO REMOVE THE DEEP YELLOW THAT OCCURS AT THE TOP LAYERS INTERACTION OF TIME PLUS UV RADIATION

HERE IS A MIXTURE THAT TURNS THE CRYSTAL INTO A RUBBERY CRYSTAL CARE MUST BE TAKEN TO FIT IT BEFORE IT DRIES AT THE CONCLUSION THE CRYSTAL HAS SOME YELLOW WHICH WE WANT BUT IS AS STRONG AND PLIABLE AS IT WAS 80 YEARS AGO

NOTE. UPON CLOSE EXAMINATION HANDS HAVE RUST DIAL LOOKS AGED LIKE IT SHOULD THROUGH CRYSTAL ILLUMINATION DOTS HAVE BEEN PRESSED TO OFFER AN AGED LOOK CASE HAS BEEN RESTORED, YET EDGES CORNERS WERE LEFT AS WAS OFFERING THE LOOK OF AN OFFICERS 600.00 [ IN 1930/1940 DOLLARS ] JAPANESE MILITARY RATTRAPANTE THAT WAS WELL CARED FOR YET USED IN THE SERVICE OF THE MILITARY

READY FOR ACTION AGAIN

WOW ....IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT THE CASE FINISH WAS A MESS TO RESTORE WITHOUT CAUSING A LOSS OF LAYERS ESPECIALLY THE ANCHOR KANJI AND ARABIC NUMERALS WAS A DELICATE JOB

AGAIN, WIDE AREA OF INNER HINGED MOISTURE/DUST COVER HAS HIGH POLISH BUT NOTE THE EDGES OF MAIN CASE NOTE THE BOW INNER SIDES NOTE THE EDGES OF THE OUTER CASE

LEAVING SOME OF THE WEAR AND TEAR IS MOST IMPORTANT

!!!!!!YET THE CASE IS RESTORED!!!!!!!!

INNER DUST/MOISTURE HINGED BACKIS FACTORY SWISS FINISHED

WANT ONE? BE PREPARED TO PAY A HEFTY PRICE

THE AREAS LEFT WITH WEAR ARE PERFECT BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE THERE NO MATTER HOW WELL KEPT AND PROTECTED IF IT WAS AN ITEM THAT PARTICIPATED IN WAR FARE! AND THIS TIME PIECE DID SEE ACTION

AGAIN NOTE HANDS WORKING

BUTTON LEFT OF CROWN SENDS THE LOWER MAIN HAND TO PERFECT POSITION

OVERHAULED

2 TWO ADJUSTMENTS 7 JEWELS M.T. STAUFFER SWISS

ILLUMINATION IS LIKE IT WAS I DID NOT NOTICE ID SUBSIDIARY HAND HAD ILLUMINATION

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